From dining out to baking, making healthy food and drink choices to teaching the children to cook, you’ll find it all in here.
Fairy launches a nationwide search for the best festive cake recipe Gone are the days of getting together with the family on Stir up Sunday to mix the Christmas cake and make a wish for the year ahead. As a nation we’re not baking traditional Christmas cake anymore, in fact, 35% of us don’t even … Read more
Since the 5th October 2015 the UK has gone slightly mad over the Carrier Bag charge, sure it’s going to take some time to get used it (I’m always cursing when I get into a shop and realise I forgot to take bags with me again) but it’s been the norm in Wales for some … Read more
If you haven’t been into your local Tesco in the last couple of days then you probably won’t have heard about their new Brand Guarantee which vows; Customers will never pay more for their branded shop. Many stores nowadays offer price matching but generally you are the one who has to do the legwork for … Read more
If you know me well, you’ll know that mealtimes are my least favourite meal of the day as far as the Beans are concerned. I never intended for it to be that way, obviously, but over time Little Bean’s dislike for most foods coupled with the boy’s tendencies to copy her have resulted in most … Read more
I’m a bag lady! There, I said it!! By that of course I don’t mean I live out of bags, I mean I love bags. Big ones, small ones, plain ones and fancy ones. I have always loved (and owned far too many) bags but that’s a perk of being a female right?! This Summer … Read more
As the school year was coming to a close my boys and I picked up our friends Karin and Sammy for a Mothers and Sons day out in Oxfordshire. We had been invited to a Summer Picnic at Q Gardens Farm in Abingdon by Cherry Good juice to celebrate National Cherry Day. Followers of my … Read more
I don’t know about you, but I am a total sucker for biscuits; they are my Achilles heel!! I find it impossible to stick to just ONE and usually end up pinching a minimum of three from the biscuit barrel. I’m a dunker, too, depending on the biscuit and the beverage. I’m not quite as … Read more
Breakfast is the best meal of the day, or at least it is in our house when trying to feed the Beans. Perhaps it’s because they have been asleep and without food for so long, I don’t know but what I do know is that we get through A LOT of breakfast cereals. I’m quite … Read more
With fussy eaters like ours, we don’t tend to eat out very often because it’s usually too stressful and quite frankly a waste of food and money trying to feed the Beans but we were asked recently if we would like to try out Beefeater Grill. Initially, I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure, not only … Read more